2019

Galaxy’s Edge Issue 38 — ‘Breath, Weeping Wind, Death’

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You’ve closed your eyes again. Your thoughts are a battleground, trying to decide if she knows who you are, or she’s being a child talking to a stranger she knows she shouldn’t. It isn’t like you come upon death every day as an old man wearing a Darth Vader t-shirt and old army boots.

Daily Science Fiction — ‘Cookies for Ghost‘

Boxes line the walls, an old armoire looming like a giant opposite the door, leaving space in the center for Clara to spread a blanket and unpack her basket. Out comes the battery-driven lamp her uncle gave her for Christmas, lending a little light to the dark corners. Then the first-aide kit from the bathroom. Tapping starts at the door of the armoire, long pale fingers like candlesticks appearing around the edge. Clara glances down the hallway, where the safely of her room waits, but she can’t leave.

Abyss & Apex — ‘Along the Road to Giants‘

Sophia is a shapeshifter—but she’s only just found out. Wearing a whole new face to hide her appearance, she escapes the giants who stole her from her home, only to meet her brother along the road. Now she has a choice: keep her identity hidden and escape the world she’s always known, or help the older brother who abandoned her to monsters.

2018

Shimmer — ‘Rotkäppchen‘

The wolf arrives the same day Adeline buries Hugo on the edge of the woods, her boy’s grave forming a raft of upturned earth between two trees, just far enough from the fens that he won’t be drowning. She watches two young village men blanket him in icy soil. His shotgun leans against a nearby tree. His hunting knife is tucked under her shirt, against her back. Bone handle followed by colder steel. A second spine to hold her upright.
Behind her, the villagers’ thoughts cover her like a summer heat, so oppressive and consistent she drowns in it. Bears, bears, bears. In winter. Bears.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies — ‘Frozen Meadow, Shining Sun‘

My sister has been missing three days when the fox appears.
My ona returns with his small group of men, my sister not among them. They walk exhausted and slumped, long beards catching heavy snowflakes. They shiver under their bearskins, and his eyes are dark and empty, crying of loss. A day and a half of searching through a gathering storm, and he still can’t find his eldest daughter. My totto, my mother, wails, and her own sister, belly swollen with a coming child, gathers her close. 
The snow swallowed my sister, Ona says. She lost herself in the storm.

2017

Flash Fiction Online — ‘The Stars and the Rain‘

It rains the day my brother arrives. He steps onto Junian soil with a limp less prominent than the one I remember from childhood. And he just stands there, for a long moment, looking simultaneously lost and found. Getting soaked through.

Galaxy’s Edge Issue 26 — ‘Of Water and Wood’

Brooke’s husband always told her the woods were more alive than she thought. When he is gone, buried among their roots, she finds out he was right. They are more alive. Not particularly kind, but trying to be. 

sub-Q — ‘After the Giant’s War‘

~ originally published in New Realm

Long ago, the Cyrracks came from the sky and took the man Evie loves. But she will get him back from the shells of giants littering the land, even if it means sharing the heart beating in her own chest.

2016

Nature: Futures — ‘Breathe the Last Bits of Air‘

The end of the world may be here. Are there still stars to see?

Daily Science Fiction — ‘These are the Rules of Being a Hero‘

~ reprinted in Event Horizons 2017 (Campbell Award Anthology)

Being a hero is not like the fairy tales tell.

Unsung Stories — ‘A Sound Like Glass Raindrops‘

A girl is visited by a swarm of hummingbirds every year on her birthday, protecting her, loving her, becoming a part of her…until one year, when they take a different form.

2016 Honorable Mention in Writers of the Future

Myriad Lands Volume 2: Beyond the Edge — ‘Winged‘

Elza is a skia — one who studies mythological creatures. When she takes a job from the very people who took her parents from her in order to get them back, she gets more than she bargained for in the form of a stubborn and secretive boy who is much more than human.

Perihelion Science Fiction — ‘Between First Dawn and Last Dusk’

In a world where the sun can hardly rise each day, Tem merely exists in the last sanctuary city left standing. But his home has lost its net of safety, its people are numbers, and the Leaders Program and Eliminate citizens at will. When Tem finds a child marked for Elimination, it sparks his own struggle to defy his Programming, and brings him back to a sibling he never should have known.

AE Micro 7 (2016) — ‘Our Place Among the Stars’

Change is coming, one second at a time. And in the end, we will be one…

New Realm Magazine Vol. 4 No. 5 — ‘After the Giant’s War‘

Long ago, the Cyrracks came from the sky and took the man Evie loves. But she will get him back from the shells of giants littering the land, even if it means sharing the heart beating in her own chest.

2015 Silver Honorable Mention in Writers of the Future

2015 and Older

eBook of Writing Prompts from Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things — “Character Prompt: 3 Fascinating Things About Your Characters”

1st Place–Allan Hancock College Film-fest and Screenplay Competition (Short)–The Greatest of Gifts

2nd Place–New Voices, Young Writers 2015 (Senior Essay Division) — “My Dear Villains…”

Intangience Magazine (Short Story) — “Down by the Old Hanging Tree”